Examples of 'back benches' in a sentence
Meaning of "back benches"
back benches - This phrase typically refers to members of a political party who do not hold a ministerial or shadow ministerial position, and instead sit behind the frontbenchers in the parliament
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- plural of back bench
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I am an old hand from the back benches.
Back benches neutral.
He will be more dangerous on the back benches.
I think the feeling on the back benches is that he lacks substance.
Just go out there and own it or go to the back benches.
The sleeping beauties on our back benches have woken and are not happy.
Maybe you should just go sit on the back benches.
The sleeping beauties on our back benches have woken up and they aren't happy.
He knew the damage he might wreak rampaging on the back benches.
From the back benches there were opposition shouts of ' Postcards for sale.
Bit of unrest on the back benches.
He returned to the back benches when David Cameron was elected as leader in 2005.
Keating went to the back benches.
He served only a single term in the provincial legislature, sitting in the back benches.
Spazio Inox - Back benches neutral.
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That would give her something to think about on the back benches.
I will watch these exchanges from the Back Benches.
That 's probably the majority view on the back benches.
Churchill 's clawing his way in from the back benches.
That'd give her something to think about on the back benches.
She left office on 5 June and returned to the back benches.
Foreign Secretary? That would give her something to think about on the back benches.
There was murmuring again, this time only among the Youngers on the back benches.
He also co-hosts the political television show Back Benches.
And, if we got in somehow, we were relegated to the back benches.
It 's an issue that 's easy to get worked up about from the back benches.
What… did you have in mind precisely? Bit of unrest on the back benches.
Well, it's a difficult time. Bit of unrest on the back benches.
In the reshuffle of October 2013 he was returned to the back benches.
In early 2010 Groeneveld was shuffled out of cabinet and returned to the back benches.
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